Figures Of Speech

Question 1

SIMILE

Answer 1

In simile two unlike things are explicitly compared. For example, “She is like a fairy”. A simile is introduced by words such as like, so, as etc.

Question 2

METAPHOR

Answer 2

It is an informal or implied simile in which words like, as, so are omitted. For example, “He is like a lion (Simile) “and “He is a lion (metaphor)”. In the following examples, metaphors are underlined.

• She is a star of our family.
• The childhood of the world; the anger of the tempest; the deceitfulness of the riches: wine is a mocker.
• She is now in the sunset of her days.

Question 3

PERSONIFICATION

Answer 3

Personification is an attribution of personal nature, intelligence or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions. For example, in some phrases we use, the furious storm, the thirsty ground, and the pitiless cold. Some other examples are:

Little sorrows sit and weep. (Boccaccio)
The dish ran away with the spoon. (Blake)